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Export current theme as a Json file

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Siva Mani on 11 Sep 2017 18:33:57

We have a wonderful option - switch theme to import theme as a JSON file.It would be great to have an export option to export current theme as a JSON file from a report.

Administrator on 24 Jul 2020 23:07:50

We have completed this idea!

You can read about it in our documentation. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-report-themes

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서웅국 on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:29

RE: Export current theme as a Json file

I think very impotant option. I hope this feature has been added.

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EJG on 05 Jul 2020 23:28:53

RE: Export current theme as a Json file

This is very important to organization where there is dedicated visual specialist responsible for look and feel of PowerBI reports. We want to be able to export/import theme (including layout). Thanks

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Josh English on 05 Jul 2020 23:20:43

RE: Export current theme as a Json file

The only json I can find is the default file, not the file with my visual customizations.

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Michael Lee on 05 Jul 2020 23:06:55

RE: Export current theme as a Json file

Thank you Anonymous... worked for me too!!! :-)

"Anonymous commented · October 05, 2017 17:41 · Flag as inappropriate
Nice to have for the lazy people. But think of your pbix file as a zip file. Simply rename, unzip and extract your json ;-) Works for me."

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Adam Bäckman on 05 Jul 2020 23:03:39

RE: Export current theme as a Json file

This is a must have for enterprise development and quite strange that it hasn't been done given the very good talk that was given at the summit about gestalt principles. Right now I spend an inordinate amount of time aligning formatting across pages and reports to ensure a consistent user experience.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:38

RE: Export current theme as a Json file

That's exactly the thing I needed today to earn a lot of time

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:31

RE: Export current theme as a Json file

Nice to have for the lazy people. But think of your pbix file as a zip file. Simply rename, unzip and extract your json ;-) Works for me.

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Ello on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:13

RE: Export current theme as a Json file

It would be great if the JSON file could be exported from a PBIX file. Then it is possible to create 1 file with all the customization we want for a specific report and export that one and use it in all the other reports. That would save use al lot of time since creating the json file is not straight forward.

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CLE on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:40

RE: Export current theme as a Json file

Yes - It will bee excelent if we could export a json file after we have designed
our own Theme in Power BI .

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ElliotP on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:55

RE: Export current theme as a Json file

Would be incredibly handy for large scale ISV developers who want to ensure colour and visual consistency. At the moment, selecting the right colours/visual options takes up a greater amount of time than putting together the visuals (a testament to how amazing powerbi is that we are at this point)